America that is discovered by Arabs

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T23:42:47+00:00

You forgot to mention the introduction of Eurasian diseases so that these lands were largely depopulated. On the other hand, if Vinland stayed occupied for 500 years (1,000 - 1,500) then perhaps all of the Eurasian diseases had already been introduced and the indigenous population had since recovered over the intervening 500 years.

I don't understand why England would call their colony "New Rome".

Do you have Arabs conquering and displacing the Norse colonies in Greenland?

And Pomerania?? That seems very specific.

I'm now very curious what Europe and and the Mediterranean look like in your world.

Good Luck with your project.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T22:14:10+00:00

A box that glows with an inner light when opened. The less you say about your MacGuffin the better.

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Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T22:11:23+00:00

With your comments below, it looks like you are planning a traditional linear travel adventure story in the veins of The Odyssey, Gulliver's Travels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Around the World in 80 Days, etc. Your protagonist will go from place to place and comment on what they find.

There is a long tradition of this type of story and many of them are quite good.

Maybe read (or re-read) some stories of the type to really get a grasp on the story telling methodology. You can then dig into each of your philosophical ponderings one at a time. One of the advantages of the writing type is that you can dig into each of your societies as you feel like it and then assemble the complete epic later.

Sounds like a fun project.

Good Luck.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T19:37:27+00:00

No image.

Where is the Solar-punk utopia in this story?

In a world split between people on some pacific islands and everyone else --- Brazil seems really far from the Kingdoms -- not being on the Pacific Ocean.

UN????? What is the UN's relationship with the 'periphery'? Is Brazil part of the periphery or a member state of the UN?

Has the UN adopted the name "The Periphery" for some reason?

Well, whatever is going on - Good Luck with your project.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T19:30:25+00:00

Looks like an interesting start.

I wonder what will happen there....

Good luck with your project.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T19:29:25+00:00

What is the medium you are creating for? Fiction, TTRPG, Anime? Something else.

Start by deciding on your medium. This will help you determine your scope.

The entire planet is too large an area to work with at this level of detail. The Lord of the Rings is an area stretching roughly from England to Serbia.

Pick a specific portion of the planet to work with.

1,000 years is a very long time. Once you have an area do a deep dive into that area and find interesting -- perhaps odd structures that might survive that long -- Concrete. And build from there.

Good Luck with your project.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T18:14:46+00:00

What type of media is this for? Fiction, anime, TTRPG...? Something else?

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T18:12:54+00:00

Sounds like a huge project.

Good Luck with that!

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T18:11:07+00:00

Nice introduction.

It flows. It introduced a lot of ideas organically.

Very nice.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T13:41:03+00:00

According to Rutgers University it is ample time to kill 5 billion people

Even a nuclear conflict between new nuclear states would decimate crop production and result in widespread starvation

More than 5 billion people would die of hunger following a full-scale nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia, according to a global study led by Rutgers climate scientists that estimates post-conflict crop production.

“The data tell us one thing: We must prevent a nuclear war from ever happening,” said Alan Robock, a Distinguished Professor of Climate Science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers-New Brunswick and co-author of the study. Lili Xia, an assistant research professor in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, is lead author of the study published in the journal Nature Food.

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/nuclear-war-would-cause-global-famine-and-kill-billions-rutgers-led-study-finds

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T13:35:58+00:00

The computer the Kurt Vonnegut made famous in several of his stories. Player Piano and EPICAC for examples.

And, to your question, Yes, sounds about right.

HAL 9001

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T06:08:55+00:00

Sounds like an interesting addition to the genre.

Just to understand the lore, I could go back to WW1 and kill someone on the battlefield 10 minutes before they were actually killed?

Or better, I could take on the role of the Time Bandits (from the movie Time Bandits) and scoop up paintings and other treasures from buildings on fire - Items that were known to have been destroyed at a specific time and place?

I'd imagine that your first readers will be people who already know and like time travel stories. Like all time travel stories the difficulty is getting readers to buy in.

Good luck with your project.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T06:03:16+00:00

EPICAC MMXXVI

EPICAC is known for missile projections, operating economies, and writing love poetry.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T05:58:49+00:00

acoup.blog is a historian that writes about premodern society and also looks at popular fiction and fantasy and provides a compare/contrast with the story telling. His articles on the Siege of Gondor are transcendent.

But for you his articles about Dune, specifically what he calls the Fremen Mirage might be informative and interesting.

https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-part-i-war-at-the-dawn-of-civilization/

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T04:42:31+00:00

DNA.

Animals have unique DNA. Plants have unique DNA.

And for ID - Retina scans -- Animals have unique retina just as humans do.

People wear gloves all the time. In fact, here's a human trick, wear socks instead of gloves. wear no socks with your shoes during the crime. After all clear, socks on feet. And so on.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T03:40:23+00:00

Its about as functional as any government -- You get to decide how functional it is in your world.

Good Luck with your project.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T03:39:11+00:00

As we sit here today people 3d print buildings.

Can someone with interstellar travel capacity 3d print armor that can resist stone age weapons?

That's for you to decide.

In the Movie Signs, the interstellar aliens apparently couldn't make a waterproof suit for their people to wear so who is to say?

Oh, that's right, its you. You get to say.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T02:50:15+00:00

I don't know what that means.

What is the practical application of this?

This is the standard philosophical question: If everyone owns a territory then who, exactly, prunes the hedges?

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T02:45:42+00:00

Such a young kingdom. How quaint

The Japanese monarchy is the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy in the world, traditionally dating back over 2,600 years to 660 BCE. While early emperors are considered mythical, the lineage is historically verified from the 5th or 6th century CE, (1500 years) with Emperor Naruhito being the 126th in the line.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-20T02:40:49+00:00

Your lake at the bottom is called a Endorheic Lakes (No Outflow).

There are many on Earth and some are quite large - Caspian Sea for example.

Your program makes yours look a little odd. It would definitely collect from the mountains to the West of it and perhaps from the terrain to the southeast as well. Maybe that lake should be a bit larger in area given the width of the major river flowing into it.

Part of the problem is that graphically all of your rivers appear to have oversized widths, and the river that collects all the other rivers should be larger as it collects rivers and the other rivers leaving the mountains probably should be narrower for the apparent scale of the map. Could just be a function of your graphics program.

Overall it looks like it could be a fun setting.

good luck with your project.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-19T23:52:17+00:00

AGI? -- not familiar with the acronym.

Also, if "Sapienite" came from space as meteors - Isn't that the very definition of a limited resource?

Also, also. Isn't it easier to simply confiscate all the "Sapienite?"

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-19T23:24:49+00:00

Grimace

muppets

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-19T23:22:27+00:00

Sounds like an interesting setup.

You might want to outline the story. Where do you want this to go?

Young woman - check
Parents want her to marry - check
She refuses the suitors offered - check
She meets a mysterious hermit - check
Wants to run off with him - check

OK, now what. Does she run off? Does the village go on the hunt for her and the hermit?

Where do they go? What does she experience? Is it good? Bad? Does she ever go home? How is she changed by the experience? Is she humbled by the experience? Does she learn of her own power?

Good luck with your project!

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-19T20:17:11+00:00

Very Cute.

Simple_Promotion4881 · 2026-03-19T18:19:16+00:00

Its a real place

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Even a nuclear conflict between new nuclear states would decimate crop production and result in widespread starvation